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Along with its echoes of Britain's Westminster, the legislature over which Sir Abubakar presided last week had some of the flavor of a Pan-African Congress. On its benches tall, haughty Hausas, splendidly robed in green and scarlet, sat amongst volatile Ibos draped in white and azure gowns. Across the aisle were Yoruba tribesmen wrapped in gold, yellow and orange with little porkpie beanies on their heads. Between them, they constituted one of the world's noisiest Parliaments. Each speaker was greeted with cries of "Heah, heah" from his friends and derisory shouts of "Sit down...
...desire of the Japanese people to reach democratic maturity is, amongst others, expressed in the fact that Japan has not only one of the greatest number of regular newspaper readers but there are also magazines of high standing with a very large circulation. Two of these magazines gave me a dinner followed by two or three hours' interview which, on the basis of a tape-recording, was edited and published in the magazine. The questions were political and cultural...
Just how bad became apparent when Nikita coldly refused to attend the first scheduled summit meeting, which had been planned as an intimate and secret confab amongst the Big Four alone. Instead, he announced, he would show up only for the large (24 people), on-record meeting whose proceedings he would be free to blare out to the world...
...Time for Realism. Because the Common Market will certainly be dominated by West Germany, the rivalry between Britain and the Six helped to fuel the resurgence of anti-German feeling (TIME, April 20, 1959 et seq.) amongst ordinary Britons-though not in the British government. So bitter was the deepening conflict between the Six and the Seven that some good Europeans like NATO Secretary-General (and Common Market Treaty Negotiator) Paul-Henri Spaak began to fear that it would induce a political split which could turn NATO into an empty shell...
...last week there were signs that Britain was having second thoughts. British economists pointed to a U.N. report that showed that increased trade between the Common Market nations accounted for 60% of the total rise in trade amongst European nations last year. From British officialdom came frank admissions that Britain had sorely misjudged Europe's political eagerness for unity, and the U.S.'s consistent effort to provide aid. and comfort to that drive...